Late to this thread, but why not spend the money to invest in a software solution that does it all for you: normalize, show usage, manage all kinds of entitlements, allocations of titles internal to my business units, and so on. If I've hired an outside expert to come in and make sense of my business today, 6-12 months later I'm right back where I started, and have to look to the outsider to come back in and start all over again. Rinse and Repeat for any number of other vendors and their products.
Ed Aldrich Mobile: (401) 924-2293 ed.aldr...@me.com<mailto:ed.aldr...@me.com> [Description: Description: cid:image011.png@01CAD56A.EFDE3F90] Ent Client Mgmt MVP (2003-2017) From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Craig Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 7:26 AM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software Why not get pre-emptively audited from Microsoft, they might team you with a LAR or licensing partner who will (should) have tools for this. It is not free, you are committed to it, and might take a while but Microsoft and/or the LAR might share the costs, making it financial more attractive. That way not only do you get normalized data, but you have a partner who can make some real sense of the data in business and licensing terms. From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: 08 April 2016 04:49 To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software You've just made my point - it is worth something (and thus not free) because the amount of time and effort that is needed to create the normalization data source is not small. My point was that if anyone did this for free, I wouldn't trust it as someone else said. There simply is far too much work to be done for it to be accurate and correct for any free product to be able to deliver anything of quality. J From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerousek, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 5:10 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software I'm betting everyone here runs Windows Server, SQL, Adobe, etc. not sure how that wouldn't be worth much. I have a hard time subscribing to the thought that paying for something makes it trustworthy. I've personally seen 6 figure software products not get normalization right. Thanks, Jeff Jerousek From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:48 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software Honestly, if it were free, it wouldn't be worth much. Do you realize how much data there is to normalize in the first place? J From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerousek, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:34 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software Is there any community-driven (i.e. free) data normalization out there for SCCM? Thanks, Jeff Jerousek From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:19 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software BDNA does it for you.... I'm just sayin'. ;-) ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [MVP] <https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/overview> [MMS] <http://mmsmoa.com/> From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Brian McDonald Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 10:04 AM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ms...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] Microsoft licensed software I'm running some queries in my environment to collect data on Microsoft products (True-Up Time). I'm wondering if there is a reference page anyone is aware of so I can view only Microsoft licensed products. It's quite tiresome filtering out the queries to exclude all of the 'free' stuff. Please let me know if anyone is aware of where I might be able to find something like this. 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